--- title: Sound on, ye glorious strains of the hunter's horn; continue your st… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Sound on, ye glorious strains of the hunter's horn; continue your stirring tones, for the evening is mild, and the surface of the sea, heaving slowly and calmly, is smooth as a mirror. Who acts: ye, evening, Sound, your. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The S --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/186/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Sunbeam and the Captive](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/186/) / 16 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Sunbeam and the Captive, sentence 16 Sound on, ye glorious strains of the hunter's horn; continue your stirring tones, for the evening is mild, and the surface of the sea, heaving slowly and calmly, is smooth as a mirror. **Who acts:** ye, evening, Sound, your · **What happens:** strain, continue, be, heave, intonate · **To what, where:** stirring tones This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Sunbeam and the Captive. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ye, evening, Sound, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:186:16 # text = Sound on, ye glorious strains of the hunter's horn; continue your stirring tones, for the evening is mild, and the surface of the sea, heaving slowly and calmly, is smooth as a mirror. 1 Sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 2 on on ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 6 nsubj _ _ 5 glorious glorious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 strains strain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 hunter hunter NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 horn horn NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 13 continue continue VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 14 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 stirring stirring NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 tones tone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 for for SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 mild mild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 heaving heave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 conj _ _ 32 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 calmly calmly ADV RB _ 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 37 smooth smooth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 38 as as ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 mirror mirror NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **strain** | | ye | | | | | of the hunter's horn | tree rules | | 2 | **continue** | infinitive | | your stirring tones | | | | | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent tone=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | the evening | | | | | the surface of the sea *obl*; mild *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **heave** | gerund | the evening *not said here* | | | | | slowly *property* | vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | Sound and glorious strains | | | | | as a mirror; smooth *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **intonate** | | your | | | | | | nom tone «communication transitive»: poss=agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/186/15/) - next →: [The Swan's Nest, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/187/1/) - ↑ back to [The Sunbeam and the Captive](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/186/)